Copying Member Names from Microsoft Excel To copy and paste member names from Microsoft Excel: In Excel, highlight the member names in one cell or in a range of cells, and press Ctrl+C to copy the data onto the clipboard. Highlight and select the target cell or cells in the Simplified dimension editor, and then press Ctrl+V. When the Clipboard helper is displayed, press Ctrl+V again. The data is pasted to the Clipboard helper. Click Paste to paste the data into the Simplified dimension editor.